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Show INKLINGS. l'hd Potomac- abounds in'sturgeou. Dexter has a r:T.l on the Mobile turi'. Do nor trifle with an accountant, for l:cn In: stingy, he'll sting like an adder. The Moiitiomorj papers say 14,000 lsborers :ire at work on the railroads in Akbama. An Illinois jury has awarded dam-xgos dam-xgos of three-quarters of a cent in a libel cave, against an editor. New Orleans has a negress who chews policemen's fingers off as they take li'-r to the .station-house. Josh Billings says males are sure-looted; sure-looted; he has known them to kick a boy twice ii a second, ten feet off. A Charleston Sre engine refused to lo duty at a reecMt fire, and it was found some misanthropist had packed the valves with thinglc nails. A Columbus photographer presented a revolver at the be.ul of a gentlemen "who was sitting lor his photograph, n'ith the cheering remark, ".My reputation repu-tation as an artist i.s ;it stake. If you don't look smiling I'll blow your brains tit I" He smole a ghastly smile. The Lafayette Covaritr chronicles the miracle that one Mrs. Maeher, who was ''cut to pieces with an axe" fcy her husband, has "so far recovered as to be able to carry a plate of soup" to her as?asin in prison. An intelligent youth, recently engaged en-gaged i;i a commercial office, made cut a shipping bill for "fourty" barrels f flour. His employer called his at-tentiui at-tentiui to an error in the spelling of forty. "iSure enough," replied the promising clerk,. "I left out the gh." A cuie of feminine daring is related of a V irginia belle, Mho rode to the edge of a precipice and dcGed any inan cf the party with whom she was riding to follow her. Mot a man accepted ac-cepted the challenge; but a tantalizing youth stood on his head in his saddle and dared the lady to do that. Indignant at the false reports which have been published, a Mew Hampshire Hamp-shire man, who evidently ought to have been born in Ireland, declares that he will give a dollar for the autotroph auto-troph of every member of the New xlarrj pshire Legislature who is unable to write his own name. Tesas is ahead, and Washington's body servant is nowhere. Texas reports re-ports that a negro woman died in that State on the "th inst., who was 133 .years old, who was "one of the oldest inhabitants of Texas," and who was "formerly a servant of Gen. Washington's Washing-ton's mother." |